Arvind Kejriwal condemns arrest of AAP Gujarat leader Raju Karpada Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday reacted sharply to the arrest of Raju Karpada, the party’s Gujarat Farmer Cell head, who was taken into custody by Gujarat Police in the early hours of the morning. The arrest followed Karpada’s protest at the…
Afghanistan foreign minister visits Darul Uloom Deoband in UP (Pictur ecredit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Taliban’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited the Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur on Saturday, meeting Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani and other senior officials of the seminary. Muttaqi expressed gratitude for the warm reception and optimism about India-Afghanistan ties….
NEW DELHI: The opposition may send a delegation to Ladakh, where violence during a protest last month demanding statehood and tribal status under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution left four people dead and several injured, PTI reported on Saturday.Sources in several opposition parties said the delegation could go to the Union Territory towards the…
NEW DELHI: Politics in Bihar saw the dominance of RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar for more than three decades. With Lalu and Nitish at the twilight of their careers, the upcoming assembly elections may lead Bihar into a phase of the “unknown,” with a new face possibly taking the…
Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders slammed the government after women journalists were barred from a Taliban press conference in New Delhi, raising concerns over gender discrimination and democratic norms. Meanwhile, US troops began arriving in Israel to support the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire, coordinating humanitarian aid and security alongside regional partners, while thousands…
EAM S Jaishankar meets ambassador-designate Sergio Gor NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met US ambassador-designate Sergio Gor in New Delhi and discussed the growing strategic partnership between India and the United States. Gor, accompanied by US deputy secretary for management and resources Michael J Rigas, is currently on a six-day visit…
Akhilesh Yadav (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s Facebook account was restored on Saturday as he questioned the suspension, saying his posts had been wrongly flagged.Yadav said his account was taken down because of posts related to the death of a journalist and another case involving the suspicious death of a…
Sonia Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday wrote to Amneet Kumar, wife of senior Haryana IPS Y Puran Kumar, who died by suicide at his Chandigarh official residence. In his suicide note, Puran Kumar named 16 senior IAS and IPS officers in his note, alleging harassment and holding…
Dehradun, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, reiterating his government’s commitment to sustainable development, said on Friday that a nine-point policy has been launched in the state to ensure a balance between the economy and the environment.Inaugurating the 24th annual conference of the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) at Doon University here, Dhami…
Amit Khan Muttaqi and S Jaishankar (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Saturday led a wave of opposition outrage after women journalists were barred from a Taliban press conference in New Delhi. Taking direct aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress MP addressed PM Modi and said, “you are telling every woman in…
